What if the blade could be made of a thin metal strip? Rather than spending time maintaining the blades, men could simply discard them when they became dull. One day, while he was shaving with a straight razor that was so worn it could no longer be sharpened, the idea came to him. His boss at the bottle cap company, meanwhile, had just one piece of advice: Invent something people use and throw away. Indeed, the previous year he had published a book, The Human Drift, which argued that all industry should be taken over by a single corporation owned by the public and that millions of Americans should live in a giant city called Metropolis powered by Niagara Falls. He blamed the evils of market competition. It was 1895, and despite ideas, energy, and wealthy parents, he had little to show for his work. At the age of 40, King Gillette was a frustrated inventor, a bitter anticapitalist, and a salesman of cork-lined bottle caps.
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Her first published novel, Term Paper, was written in 1979. She continued the column, called The Trentonian, through much of her writing career. Her career, prior to being an author, was a newspaper columnist. Rinaldi currently lives in Somerville, New Jersey, with her husband, Ron, whom she married in 1960. She also writes for the Dear America series. She is the most prolific writer for the Great Episode series, a series of historical fiction novels set during the American Colonial era. In 2000, Wolf by the Ears was listed as one the best novels of the preceding twenty-five years, and later of the last one hundred years. She has written a total of forty novels, eight of which were listed as notable by the ALA. She is best known for her historical fiction, including In My Father's House, The Last Silk Dress, An Acquaintance with Darkness, A Break with Charity, and Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons. August 27, 1934, in New York City) is a young adult fiction author. mayor Marion Barry and federal prosecutor Eric Holder, feared that the gains of the civil rights movement were being undermined by lawlessness―and thus embraced tough-on-crime measures, including longer sentences and aggressive police tactics. Many prominent black officials, including Washington, D.C. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers.įorman shows us that the first substantial cohort of black mayors, judges, and police chiefs took office amid a surge in crime and drug addiction. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. Short-listed for the Inaugural Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justiceįormer public defender James Forman, Jr. One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2017 Winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fictionįinalist, Current Interest Category, Los Angeles Times Book Prizes She just knows Jim will be delighted with it and can’t wait to see the look on her face when he opens her gift. With the $20.00 she received for her sacrifice, Della buys Jim the perfect platinum pocket watch fob. What shall Della do? Della decides she will sell her hair so she goes off to the local hairdresser by the name of Madame Sofronie who cuts off Della’s gorgeous long hair. However, she only has $1.87, not exactly a princely sum even in the early 1900s. Della wants to buy a beautiful chain for Jim’s watch. Jim has a gold watch, a family heirloom that once belonged to his father and grandfather.Īs I mentioned, Jim and Della are not flush with cash. Money is quite tight, but they are determined to buy each other the perfect Christmas gifts despite their lack of funds.ĭella is blessed in long, thick hair, which goes down to her knees. They are madly in love and living in a rundown apartment in New York City. The Gift of the Magi tells the story of a newly-wed couple, James (Jim) and Della Dillingham. Henry had it published in his collection of short stories The Four Million in 1906. The Gift of the Magi was originally called Gifts of the Magi and published in The New York Sunday World in December of 1905. And to me, it’s a soothing parable in our time of hate, bigotry, violence and greed. Henry (real name William Sydney) is probably quite familiar to most of my readers, but it’s an important story to keep in mind during the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. Nathaniel Rich, prefacing South and West, wrote that she “saw her era more clearly than anyone else, which is another way of saying that she was able to see the future”. Partly the chilled prose – ahead of its time, anticipating both the personal essay boom and the numbed affect that would become typical of Generation X. What has fixed her in the collective imagination? This April, the Library of America will release the second volume of its definitive edition of her work. South and West, published the same year, showed that even her notes would sell. She was the subject, in 2017, of a Netflix documentary, The Center Will Not Hold. In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal. In the five decades since Slouching Towards Bethlehem, her work, particularly her non-fiction, has been widely celebrated. Joan Didion has been consecrated in her own lifetime. In writing this book, the authors were motivated by one sickening statistic: 21,000 people die from starvation every day. The reader is reminded the economic hit men popularized in John Perkins’ 2004 bestseller Confessions of an Economic Hit Man are still alive and well – in Africa in particular. Strings designed to fleece vulnerable nations. The Morcans reveal there’s a nefarious hidden agenda at play whereby the ‘generosity’ extended by international aid organisations in assisting the development of the Third World and providing relief in the event of natural disasters comes with serious strings attached. It exposes the culture of corruption within the aforementioned aid organizations and the arrogance with which they treat their Third World ‘clients.’ This book also questions whether the aid packages provided are genuine or whether they are scams designed to subjugate Third World countries. It questions whether the likes of the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United States Agency for International Development and other big international aid organizations help or hinder the world’s poorest people. BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt by James Morcan, Lance Morcan Exposing the culture of corruption within big international aid organizationsīankrupting the Third World is dedicated to the impoverished in forgotten places of the world. Blume took the taboo - birth control, puberty, bullying, divorce - and made it mainstream. And she pours that empathy and that memory onto the page in a way that really resonates with kids." Why were these books so controversial?īefore Blume, young people rarely had a chance to read about the issues directly impacting them. "She remembers what it feels like to be a kid, to feel like your parents don't understand you, or your sibling is driving you crazy, or your body is confusing … She's able to tap into those feelings seemingly so easily. " that memory extends to feelings," explains Pardo. How did Blume write through the eyes of young people so well?īlume has impressive powers of recall when it comes to her own childhood. "The powerful thing about Judy Blume is that she has this ability to really portray the interior lives of young people … and she describes their concerns and their desires without judgement," says Wang.ĭavina Pardo, who co-directed Judy Blume Forever, told Stop Everything!: "I got my period when I was 10 … to open up a book like Margaret and be inside the head of a girl who wanted this thing so desperately that I was so ashamed of … to be part of a conversation with Margaret and her friends that I wasn't having in my own life, was so incredibly comforting." Listen to Stop Everything!įor more pop culture coverage. We are promised science fiction and space and "a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain". but the attraction is lost on me.ġ) The description appears on goodreads. Just a quick scroll down the GR page and I can see all my friends' ratings of five or four stars. Let me break down my thought process on this book from the very first time I noticed it on goodreads because somewhere along the way something went really really wrong. But they won’t be the same people who landed on it. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder-would they be better off staying here forever?Įverything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Inexplicably drawn to a warmly fit house along an isolated country lane, he is mistaken for an overdue guest - but he dares not reveal his identity for fear of being tossed back out into the torrential rain, a fate he admittedly deserves. When Elliot Armstrong, the dissolute marquis of Rannoch, pursues a spiteful mistress into the wilds of Essex to sever their relationship, he is surprised to find himself hopelessly lost - in more ways than one. You can read this before My False Heart (Lorimer Family and Clan Cameron #1) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book My False Heart (Lorimer Family and Clan Cameron #1) written by Liz Carlyle which was published in November 1, 1999. Brief Summary of Book: My False Heart (Lorimer Family and Clan Cameron #1) by Liz Carlyle It is an art and also a way of knowing what the driver believes in or stands for. In Ghana, as in most countries perhaps, car inscriptions are common. The title of the novel, The Beautyful Ones are not yet Born, was an inscription the author saw written at the back of a car a policeman had stopped, in the novel. In our boredom we went out to the open public places to see what it was people were talking about, whether it was a thing we could go to with our hopes, or just another passing show like so many we had seen and so many we are seeing now. But we did not run out eager to follow anyone. If it had been so, we would have been following th first men who came offering words and hidden plans to heal our souls. It is not true at all that when men are desperate they will raise their arms and welcome just anybody who comes talking of their salvation. This is how the Teacher described Maanan's view of this new person, leader: The mental decay that characterised the period is seen through a lady called Maanan who thought that the coming of an eloquent man, who showed glimpses of learning and not just learning but having knowledge of the path, of having power not bestowed upon him by the white man, and when this man (reference to Nkrumah) failed her, she went insane. It was this Teacher who guided the man to resist the torments of his wife and mother-in-law, whilst at the same time showing him that the path is not that rosy and things wouldn't change even now. In the story is a Teacher, whom 'the man' consulted anytime he had problems. |